- Cantaloupe Melon - Cantaloupe melons, with their sweet, orange flesh, are one of the tastiest of the melon family.- Apple - Nature's perfect ready meal, apples are ready to eat any time.- Jersey Potatoes, the best spuds of the year - The finest potatoes in the world? Possibly?- English Apples - Our Lost Heritage - There are thousands of varieties of apples known, but less than 20 commonly sold in supermarkets, and typically less than 5 are common English apple varieties.- British Strawberries - where has all the taste gone? - Once one of the finest tastes in the fruit world, eagerly awaited every summer, the appeal of British Strawberries is not quite what it used to be...- Potato - An old classic and a staple food in many potatoes, how much do you know about potatoes?- Banana - A fruit as popular as it is versatile, how much do you really know about Bananas? You might think they're just yellow, but you can get blue and red ones too.

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No fruit salad is complete without melon pieces - it'd be like Wimbledon without the strawberries! There are lots of different types of melon; honeydew, cantaloupe, charentais, galia, piel de sapo, and watermelon just to name but a few. This article concentres on Cantaloupe melons. - Read More

he colour of apples varies from dark red, through bright red, orange, yellow and green. Taste also varies greatly between varieties, from crispy and sweet to bitter, acidic, dry, or bland; different apples are recommended for different purposes depending upon the taste and texture. - Read More

Just what is it about Jersey Potatoes that makes them one of the finest tastes of the year? Is it that they are one of the few remaining crops with a short lasting season, or the traditional hand farming methods passed down for hundreds of years? - Read More

When you get home from a trip to the supermarket, most of your fruit and veg probably ends up in the refrigerator. Tomatoes, nectarines, plums, onions… stop!!! Let's take a moment and work out which of the labels on the front of produce you can ignore, and what you should be doing with your fruit and veg. - Read More

Usually our features here on Fresh Food Central only touch on the fruit or vegetable in question. However, to look at the role of pumpkins in Halloween, we need to look at what Halloween actually is, and where it came from. - Read More

There are thousands of varieties of apples known, but less than 20 commonly sold in supermarkets, and typically less than 5 are common English apple varieties. Even at the height of the English apple season in September and October, you'll be hard pushed to find many other than the traditional Cox and Bramley, and perhaps a Discovery. When English apples are so plentiful, why can't we get hold of them? - Read More

Once one of the finest tastes in the fruit world, eagerly awaited every summer, the appeal of British Strawberries is not quite what it used to be… Find out why, and what are all those plastic tunnels popping up all over the place for? - Read More

You could say Potatoes are one of the five most important foods in the world, and you would be right. They are the fourth most important source of food energy in the world after rice, wheat and maize, and are the worlds’ most important tuber crop. Read more about this, and other great potato information. - Read More

A fruit as popular as it is versatile, how much do you really know about Bananas? You might think they're just yellow, but you can get blue and red bananas too. Find out about Cavendish, and other bananas. - Read More